* I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in
another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children
with numerous women.

* I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in
me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

* Later in life, questions arose over my real name.

* My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a
legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

* I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it
was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs
& didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

* I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult,
disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

* That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life
and I embarked on a new career.

* I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those
who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father
abandoned me as a child.

* I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help behind
the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national
office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone
into anything. That reinforced my conceit.

* I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no
experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker
and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were
small roofing tacks.

* I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This
bolstered my ego.

* At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign
policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized
every opportunity to bash my country.

* But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on
the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we
could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.

* I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.
It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making
citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the
plan was clinched tight.

* I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all
people.

* I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the
traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular
support.

* I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope' , together we
could change our country and the world.

* So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of
the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted minorities" . My
true views were not widely known & I needed to keep them unknown, until
after I became my nation's leader.

* I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found
out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and
examined those people I associated with.

* I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in the
world. And the world learned the truth.

I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

* I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it
was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs
& didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

How would the writer know whether someone with whom he was not personally acquainted followed a faith when they weren't in the public eye?

Did I miss something, regarding Obama? I know there was a lot of controversy over his middle name, but I don't recall anyone questioning what his real name was. Unless they mean "questioning" in the sense of asking whether someone with the middle name "Hussein" should be eligible for president.

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* My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a
legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

Sure they did. The fact that some people said a legitimate, reliable birth certificate isn't enough proof doesn't change that.

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* But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on
the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we
could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.

Have there been accounts by such people of Obama's behaving in a way that suggests he doesn't practice Christianity? What kind of behavior would that be?

Well Snopes was speaking hypothetically, but I would assume somebody walking in on him while praying to mecca perhaps, maybe citing passages in the Quran... That assumes that we are talking about behavior to suggest he is a Muslim, not that it is true at all. There are lots of things that occur in private that occur between close friends that we often don't hear about until much later since the parties involved simply did not disclose them.

Of course the greater the scandal the greater the risk of it getting out.

The facts, even pointed the way they are, are often wrong about Hitler. There were no doubts about his name, for instance: He wasl always Adoph Hitler. His father had changed his name to Hitler, but had done so before Adolph was born.

Hitler always was Christian. He didn't work with lower class people as a choice: he was lower class. Hitler wasn't critical of Germany in WWI; he attacked the Versailles treaty and the way the country was treated by the victors.

There are many other major differences: Hitler was never elected president of Germany, for instance (he ran and lost to von Hindeberg). When he was named Chancellor, he was the head of the biggest party in the Reichstag. And true head of the party, not just a candidate for President. At the time he was appointed Chancellor, he had been running the party for a decade.

I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it
was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs
& didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult,
disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

There's a chap called James Randi who might be interested in this claimed ability to read someone's mind and produce a conclusion about what they're thinking that runs to the contrary of all established evidence.

I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no
experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker
and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were
small roofing tacks.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama... was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 by the largest margin in Illinois history.

That sounds like experience in organising, leading, law and politics to me...

I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found
out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and
examined those people I associated with.

Because the current President's writings are so utterly secret and guarded that they're available in hardback, paperback and audiobook from bookshops all over the world. Just what "reality" is supposed to be being "guarded" here?